Re: Text displayed within Amaya compared to text displayed within other browsers.
Keith Hopper <[email protected]>
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In article <[email protected]>, Peter Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/02/2009, at 12:43 AM, David Lockett wrote: > > Text in Amaya displays differently than it displays within regular > > browsers even when the text is correctly formatted, this can be true > > even with pages that are created within Amaya. > > > > The text often displays smaller and bolder in Amaya than it displays > > within the major browsers, .... > There was some discussion on this topic, > check the list archives on and following 2007-12-07 > IIRC there was no consensus on the cause or fix for > the problem, but I'll stick to my theory that some > (un-named) browser and/or OS rendering engines > wrongly believe 1 pixel = 1 point. I think it is even uglier than that - some operating systems seem to think that the window manager default is 72 dots per inch. I have window managers/displays running at 90 and even 110 dots per inch. which makes the widely used 72 look a bit crude. Keith -- Sky Development